Army Number: 18953

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Samuel and Rose Sutton, of Eldon Street, Clay Cross, Chesterfield. Went to France on 23rd September 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 23, in the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, France. Plot V, Row H, Grave 37.